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| Date: | 05 19 1895 |
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| Description: | A view from the bluff of group of men on the dredge bank of Buffalo Lake. |
| Date: | 05 19 1895 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the dam on the Fox River at Buffalo Lake. Houses and other buildings are visible in the background. |
| Date: | 06 19 1911 |
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| Description: | Looking west over the Wisconsin River at the unfinished narrow gauge railroad trestle built for construction of the dam. Two pile drivers are seen in the a... |
| Date: | 06 21 1911 |
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| Description: | Looking east over the Wisconsin River showing the unfinished narrow gauge railroad trestle. Two steam-driven pile drivers on barges with construction worke... |
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| Description: | Steamboat near a cliff on the Wisconsin River, presumably in the Wisconsin Dells. |
| Date: | 10 23 1923 |
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| Description: | Men working on the concrete chutes and elevated trestle. Iron reinforcing bars protrude from the forms. |
| Date: | 12 29 1912 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the progress within the coffer dam showing concrete forms around the draft tubes and gate guides. The high trestle is seen extending to th... |
| Date: | 06 13 1913 |
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| Description: | Workmen and machinery at the quarry on Blackhawk Bluff. The gravel was used in construction of the power dam. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Lotus beds on Mississippi River in the foreground and middleground. Bluffs are in the background. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Six men of the fishing colony on the shorelines of the Mississippi River. Numerous boats, logs, and fishing nets are scattered across the beach. Caption on... |
| Date: | 08 19 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the completed power house and dam, looking east at the north, or upstream, side of the structure. On the far shore, the site of the gravel... |
| Date: | 07 16 1912 |
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| Description: | Workers posing inside the coffer dam. The narrow gauge railroad is behind them. One of the pile drivers is in the background. A bare area on the bluff in t... |
| Date: | 06 13 1913 |
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| Description: | A view, from the west, of the quarry on Blackhawk Bluff. Gravel from the quarry was used in concrete for the construction of the power plant and dam. |
| Date: | 02 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Looking east along Regent Street with snow on the ground. Visible are Lake Wingra, Monona Bay, railroad causeway across Monona, Lake Mendota, Hoyt Park, We... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A student at Highlander having a picnic behind the school. |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking northwest across Lake Mendota and the isthmus from the Wisconsin State Capitol dome. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of high water on the Wisconsin River from a bluff on the west bank. The photograph is undated and does not indicate if it was taken prior to ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A man is using two horses to pull a mower through a field of clover. In the background are hills or mountains. |
| Date: | 07 1876 |
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| Description: | A camping party rests at the top of a bluff at Devil's Lake State Park. |
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| Description: | Three men scythe a field, possibly of wheat. Behind the men there are three children and a woman standing in a row. |
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